Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life

Author: Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland
Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2002
Type: Biography
Pages: 249 pages

Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life is quality literature, whether you love or hate Wynton Marsalis.
By applying the time-honored tradition of call-and-response, Marsalis and co-author Carl Vigeland offer a rare glimpse at the daily goings-on of a traveling jazz band.
They scratch way beneath the surface on a wide range of issues: music, philosophy, race relations, sibling interactions, barbeque and basketball. You'll see him in concert, at the festival, in the studio, at the school assembly, orchestrating a ballet, giving and taking trash-talk, busting his butt and procrastinating, entertaining the rich and poor, young and old.
You'll hear his tastes in food, drink, and women, why he hates rap, his crazy great-uncle the stone-cutter, how he approaches the trumpet, and of course, his uniquely affirmative jazz conception.

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